ITunesĀ® Competitor Product Owner

As a product owner, you have a little more information available to you. Here is some information you can share with your development team if they think to ask you about it:
  • There are four models - all solid state:
    • Very small footprint, can store approximately 4 hours of video - 4 GB of memory
    • Very small footprint, can store approximately 8 hours of video - 8 GB of memory
    • Medium sized, can store approximately 16 hours of video - 16 GB of memory
    • Medium sized, can store approximately 32 hours of video - 32 GB of memory
  • To make a profit on the hardware, the devices should sell for at least $100, $140, $235, $350
  • The company wants to target youth market as a possible tie in for other future products.
    • They have research which shows that this group is big on customization
  • They want to be able to sell the device, games, accessories and customizations online
  • Customizations include custom colorization, engraving, engraved uploaded pictures and stickers
  • With the popularity of social-networking sites, they want to offer a compelling reason to keep people on the site
    • Instant messaging
    • Groups and Friends
    • Share photos
    • Video
    • Email
    • Blogging
    • Second-life integration
    • Etc., the usual social networking stuff, targeted towards teens
    • They are concerned about predators, so they want different offerings to protect different age groups
  • Title and track information is available via a 3rd party agreement with CDDB
  • Of course, the client should be able to rip their own music.
  • They want a solution that will work on PC's, Mac's and Unix.